Enabling systematic, harmonised and large-scale biofilms data computation: The biofilms experiment workbench

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 309-321

  Pérez Rodríguez, Gael ^a   Glez Peña, Daniel ^a   Azevedo, Nuno F ^b   Pereira, Maria Olívia ^c   Fdez Riverola, Florentino ^a   Lourenço, Anália ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Bioinformatics; Clinical microbiology; Experimental data workbench; Harmonised vocabulary; Interchange format

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BIOFILMS; BIOINFORMATICS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPREADSHEETS; WEB SERVICES;

BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS; BIOMEDICAL COMMUNITY; DESKTOP APPLICATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA WORKBENCH; HARMONISED VOCABULARY; INTERCHANGE FORMATS; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL PACKAGES;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOFILM EXPERIMENT WORKBENCH; BIOINFORMATICS; CASE STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MARKUP LANGUAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROBIOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTUAL DATABASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTERNET;

BIOFILMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84923552052     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.12.005     Document Type: Article

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